Cogswell 1950 Oreortyx picta 2 July 7 7100 ft, ½ mi. S Donner Pass, Placer Co., Calif - 1 scolded (?) us from edge of chaparral (huckleberry oak, manzanita, Eleanthus) and conifer forest SE of Mary Lake. July 9 at least 1 heard giving the “quark” song in this same area; but such songs have the in general region, pretty much ceased. July 11 6500-6300 ft, 3+ mi. S L Van Norden, Placer Co., Calif. 2 “singing” birds heard in forest - chaparral areas on an early a.m. visit. July 13 7100 ft, ½ mi. S Donner Pass - call notes of mild alarm, the only ones heard here today [with absence of singing ??] I did not encounter the species again until : Aug 8 S side Donner L, 6000 ft., Nevada Co., Calif - 1 adult accompanied by 3+ downy YOUNG which had considerable wing feather showing. They ran slowly along road s into moist shrub-herb understory of opening in fairly dense forest of fir (red or white ?), Jeffrey Lodgepole; Aug. 10 7100 ft, ½ mi. S L Van Norden, Placer Co., Calif - an adult and 7+ YOUNG flushed from a lone outlier fir tree by forest edge, across a nearly bare slope s into cherry & willow thickets at the base of the gravelly S-facing open ridge. The young were only about ½ size but flew well. Aug. 25 7100 ft, ½ mi. S Donner Pass [see above] - about 10 flushed or ran into chaparral of same area as July records; several of them were well-grown immatures.